Butterfly politics
By: Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; BELKNAP
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780674416604
Subjects: Law and legislation; Feminist jurisprudence; Sexual harassment; Sex discrimination against women; Women's rights; Pornography; Rape; History
Description: "The theme of this book is intervening in the process of social change through legal change. The book consists of 28 chapters with introductory and concluding essays by Catharine MacKinnon. All develop the author's signature theme: that one cannot think that the way the law approaches things is all there is to knowing about them. The focus of the argument is that some wrongs (to women) may not yet be intelligible as legal wrongs, and that social problems (of oppression) may yet have no adequate legal approach. The collection makes an ideal introduction to the writing and thinking of this foremost legal scholar"--
Notes: "Encompassing legal and political interventions from 1976 to 2016, this volume collects moments of attempts to change the inequality of women to men and reflections on those attempts"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To change the world for women (1980); title: A radical act of hope (1989); title: Law's power (1990); title: To quash a lie (1991); title: The measure of what matters (1992); title: Intervening for sex equality (2013); title: Introduction, symposium on sexual harassment (1981); title: Sexual harassment Supreme Court brief for Mechelle Vinson (1986); title: Testimony on pornography, Minneapolis (1983); title: Testimony, Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1985); title: Substantive equality (1989); title: On torture (1990); title: Rape as genocide : appellate argument, Kadic v. Karadzic (1995); title: Rape as genocide : summation to the jury, Kadic v. Karadzic (2000); title: Trafficking, prostitution, and inequality (2015); title: Reality not fantasy (1985); title: To the American Civil Liberties Union on pornography (1985); title: X-Underrated (2005); title: Gender : the future (2007); title: Gender literacy (1994); title: Mainstreaming feminism in legal education (2003); title: On academic freedom : from powerlessness to power (2002); title: Engaged scholarship as method and vocation (2005); title: Defying gravity (2013); title: Rape redefined (2014); title: Restoring institutional accountability for educational sexual harassment (2013); title: Toward a renewed Equal Rights Amendment : now more than ever (2014); title: Sex equality in global perspective (2015).